Advertising communication gets fashionable: branded content and fashion films

Changes experienced by communication industry in recent years, among other reasons due to the rise of social networks, have turned contents, information or entertainment, into the touchstone for advertising message to reach its audience. The effort made by advertisers to have a defined content strategy for their presence in social media or the new communicative formats such as branded content are an example of advertainment being popular nowadays. This article focuses on branded content as well as another example of this trend: the fashion films, a new advertising genre that has erupted especially in the sectors of fashion and luxury products, with the goals of showing products in an original way and telling stories which are able to connect with your target audience.